[Ovirt-devel] Re: [PATCH recipe] Syntax error correction in ovirt.pp (missing comma)

[Bryan Kearney]

Perry N. Myers wrote:
> Perry Myers wrote:
>> Missing comma in ovirt.pp caused ace service to fail at appliance 
>> firstboot,
>> which caused failures in the appliance.
> 
> For those of you who reported issues with the appliance booting and 
> seeming like a postgres connection problem, this was the reason.  Here's 
> what happened for future reference:
> 
> syntax error in ovirt.pp caused /etc/init.d/ace to fail during appliance 
> firstboot configuration
> 
> This prevented the ovirt-server-install script from running which sets 
> up the database, and then failures cascaded from there
> 
> It's important when writing patches to test the build process end to end 
> including building an appliance and testing major functionality to make 
> sure no regressions are introduced.
> 
> To diagnose this problem I simply looked at the log files in:
> /var/log/ace

In addition, you can use the ace tooling to catch _many_ of the syntax 
errors (not all). I had not documented this... but I just added the 
following page:

http://www.thincrust.net/docs-acedebugging.html

Run this before you attempt to build the appliance to save some time.

-- bk